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German conductor, composer and choir director
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2023-09-02 11:00:03
A Wuthering Heights opera by the man who scored Psycho and The Birds is well worth a listen, while the American piano great makes CPE his own• Best known for his film scores for Alfred Hitchcock, including Vertigo, Psycho and The Birds, Bernard Herrmann (1911-75) had parallel ambitions to write music for performance away from the silver screen. His three-and-a-half-hour opera based on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, completed in 1951, was not staged in his lifetime. He partly funded the only recording of it. Now the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (Chandos), conducted by Mario Venzago, have recorded an
2023-08-25 15:23:11
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Premiere Recording Of Bernard Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights Score Disappoints
The most original rethinker of film sound was the New York composer Bernard Herrmann, who was just 30 when he won his first Oscar.
2023-07-14 00:00:00
Richard Rodney Bennett, Arthur Bliss, George Butterworth & Gustav Holst: The British Music Collections
[…] two brass orchestras:'Greetings to a City' [6'32]2.03 Fanfare for the Lord Mayor Of London [1'48]2.04 - 2.08 Things to Come. Suite [14'42]2.09 Welcome the Queen [6'33]2.10 Theme and Cadenza for violin and orchestra ^ [6'17]2.11 Introduction and Allegro [11'31]Robert Cohen-cello*, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth (1.01-1.12 [February 1993])Philip Jones Brass Ensemble directed by Elgar Howarth (2.01-2.02 [February 1970])Philip Jones Brass Ensemble directed by John Iveson (2.03 [June 1979])National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bernard Herrmann (2.04-2.08 [November 1975])London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Bliss (2.09 [May 1957])Alfredo Campoli- violin^, London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Arthur Bliss (2.10-2.11 [November 1955])Decca 470186-2 [recorded 1955 to 1993; this compilation first issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans]Recording venues: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London (1.01-1.12, 2.09), St. John's, Smith Square, London (2.01-2.02), St Jude's, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (2.03), Kingsway Hall, London (2.04-2.08, 2.10-2.11)Recording engineers: Simon Eaden (1.01-1.12), not stated (2.01-2.11)Producers: Chris Hazell […]
2021-12-10 14:14:18
Cuando tenía 20 años, Holly Herrmann prometió mudarse a Italia. Su sueño se hizo realidad 38 años después.
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